The order in which several rules are put into operation can be determined by an ‘outer,’ extrinsic ordering, which is empirically based on linguistic facts, or an ‘inner,’ intrinsic order which necessarily follows from the...

// n. (NLP) The use of computers for handling various types of tasks involving natural languages, but most particularly for accepting natural-language input from human users and giving appropriate and useful responses. The central task of NLP is the...

A technique for choosing the better of two linguistic descriptions on the basis of criteria like simplicity and elegance. Chomsky, N. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA. levels of adequacy, transformational...

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It studies the problems of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages. Natural-language-generation systems convert...